Thread 723881267

>>723881267 (OP)
>wearing a ladybug
Brutal.

>>723881267 (OP)
neat I'll buy it on my switch 2

>>723881341
The strong survive, the weak becomes a costume.

>>723881267 (OP)
>no switch 2 update
What the fuck am I even reading.

Did they fix the lock-on or add an option?

>>723881620
I'm guessing this probably started as a Switch 2 update but they realized it was so barebones even they couldn't justify a $10 upcharge for it.

>>723881735
It could just be one of the free ones. It's moreso that they didn't want to cuck Switch 1 owners out of it for once.

>>723881735
Nintendo has done several free Switch 2 patches thoughbeit. They aren't all paid upgrade packs.

>>723881735
There are multiple games with free updates. I'd say the thing that would most likely lead to this not getting a Switch 2 update/port is that it's Unreal engine, and the version that this game uses doesn't have support for Switch 2 hardware.

>>723881267 (OP)
Interested to hear more about difficulty options. Pikmin 4 desperately needed them. Too few areas chicken out on enemy placement and Oatchi rapes the everloving shit out of most of the Piklopedia.
>but muh super post-game Dandori challenges are hard!
Why is the only actual challenge in getting the White/Purple onions after I’ve already done everything in the fucking game?

>crying about a free upgrade
never change /v/jeets

>>723882035
one of them is literally baby mode that turns off enemy aggro. There's a hard mode but I would be surprised if it's actually challenging at all.

>>723881267 (OP)
Wow I can't back to come back to Pikmin 4 and walk around with my fashionable pikmin across the empty wasteland that has no signs of life anymore

>>723881267 (OP)
>Cosmetics
I'm glad I never bought Pikmin 4. What a shitshow.

>>723882171
Coping Nintendo tranny

>>723881267 (OP)
I like the idea of one specific pikmin of each color wearing a funny hat and trying to protect it

They would have to put in a lot of work to make hard mode actually enjoyable to play through again, I assume its just going to be buffed enemy health and flarlic giving you smaller upgrade intervals

>>723882226
>didn't read the op or the image

>>723882376
https://www.nintendo.com/jp/switch/ampya/update/index.html
Based on the JP website, enemies attack more often, have more health, and you're also limited to 60 Pikmin total.

>>723882457
I did.
Why do you think I didn't?

>>723882314
seething brown apezillian

>>723881267 (OP)
If the hard mode still doesn't respawn enemies I'm going to laugh

>>723882035
I can't speak for the difficulty as I didn't play most of the game and only helped my wife when she got stuck, but wasn't there an Olimar mode or something that had stricter time limits and harder enemy placement?

When Pikmin 5 comes out I really hope they do an update for 4 with mouse controls and 60 fps

>>723882490
Same as Ultra Spicy in Pikmin 3 Deluxe then.

>>723882490
Pretty boring then, they could have made it at least as involved as 3's Ultra Spicy, i wonder if they'll actually bother adjusting the treasures that you can't get without a bunch of pikmin like the weight

>>723882490
Do the enemies respawn?
It's meaningless if they don't.

>>723882490
>doesn’t seem to address the problem with too many areas just having sparse enemy placements that requires little strategy
>doesn’t seem to address how Oatchi just completely sodomizes most enemies with the charge
>doesn’t seem to address the lack of multi captain strategy needed
>doesn’t seem to address that enemies just permadie in the overworld

>>723882753
it wont cause there's only 1 100 weight item in the game and its super easy to have fully upgraded Oatchi's strength by the time you reach it. They'll need to adjust the 100 Purple treasure but it'll just be 600 now.

>>723882490
>retarded 60 Pikmin limit from 3DX hard mode returns

It's such an arbitrary way of increasing difficulty. A Pikmin hard mode should keep the limit to 100 but make the enemies harder and the days shorter. An actual test of skill for how well you can multitask instead of this half-assed shit

There should have been a 60 fps patch for Switch 2. But fuck it, I don't care. It was my least favorite Pikmin game and I doubt I'm ever going to replay it.

What the fuck?

Where's the switch 2 update.

You fucking gook. Shiggy is insane if he thinks I'm gonna rebuy the same fucking again

This is gigacope from me, but the fact they're announcing this update an entire month before it comes out, unlike the usual announcements which are a day or two before release, makes me think there could be more that they didn't show.

>>723883486
Yeah, you can see in the trailer that there's some QOL that goes unmentioned.

>>723883570
What was it?

>>723883625
w/e this is

>still an empty spot on the map that looks like it could be a DLC location
>nothing
god damnit, give me more areas to explore!

>>723883764
Oatchi carry weight. Here's one showing he has the eat ability.

>>723881267 (OP)
Is this update optional?
I don't want Pikmin wearing hats.

>>723881267 (OP)
Is this even a Switch 2 update? It doesn't specify.

>>723884227
Yeah, so they're still hiding shit in the update. Would not suprise me if enemy respawns/lock on toggle was there too.

>no resolution and framerate bump for Switch 2
What is that dementia riddled old bastard Miyamoto fucking doing man?

>>723883486
I don't think they showed all the costume Pikmin, just three of them. Based on the the Decor Pikmin Hints screen, there's probably eight of them at least, and the three visible hints having NEW on them means the obtainable list can be updated with more hints, probably more appearing after the first three are collected.

>>723884476
No, it's a free update for the Switch game.
No mention of Switch 2 upgrades.

As a Pikmin Bloom player this update and the announcement of Ice Pikmin makes today a good day. Hard mode for Pikmin 4 is nice but won't change much.
Also IMAGINE buying a Switch 2 for $500 and getting no new features.

>>723884476
Nope

>>723884620
I’ll try to keep expectations tempered here. Nintendo has been remarkably tone-deaf as of late.

>>723884301

It seems you only get the Gay Pikmin with Hats On if you do the sidequests.

>>723884940
Okay. But I can just chose to not update the game, correct?

This game uses UE4 so even if it doesn't actually support the switch 2 itself it should support the hardware that the switch 2 uses unless it uses an older version than 4.25.

>>723882490
>>723881267 (OP)
No mouse control option addition? Are you fucking kidding me, that's a no brainer

>>723885808
It's not a Switch 2 upgrade.

>>723881267 (OP)
Dope. I was looking for an excuse to play it again.

I love Oatchi guys

>>723881267 (OP)
challenge?? could be cool

>>723886486
Why? He ruins the game.

>>723886486
Goatchi.

>>723882551
>but wasn't there an Olimar mode or something that had stricter time limits and harder enemy placement?
That was a short side campaign that was basically a retelling of the first game. Fun and mildly more challenging than the main campaign, but still not very hard.

>>723881267 (OP)
Pikmin is one of those franchises that are mediocre but sell entirely because they are exclusive to nintendi systems. Same case as fire emblem.

>>723886817
>pikmin
>selling
you fucked up.

the hard mode limits you to 60 pikmin again. like ultra spicy in pikmin 3. i feel there is maybe a better way to do difficulty in this franchise than that but it is kind of an easy knob to fiddle with to substantially change the game so i get it.

>>723886958
Oh trust me, if it wasn't for the exclusivity bonus this thing would have died from having negative sales ages ago like a myriad of AA franchises that didn't survive past the 6th gen of consoles.

>>723887223
>Oh trust me
Why? You sound like a retard.

>NOT a switch 2 update

I just can't predict this company anymore

>>723882909
You want nintendo to make a hard game? If a toddler can't beat it, they won't ship it.

>>723881918
Did any of them add new content though?

>>723888715
The Splatoon 3 one.
Both consoles got new weapons and a new stage, and on Switch 2 you also got 4k display.

>>723882909
Nooo you're just a snoy!!

how many yellow pikmin can i shove up my ass?

>>723882490
>60 pikmin limit
>combined with 3 pikmin type limit

this is the gayest form of "difficulty" you could possibly have

>>723886486
I'd pop that fucker right into my mouth. Crunch, crunch, gulp

>>723882490
thanks i was excited for a minute but now i can go back to never thinking about the game again

pikmin 4 was not difficult at all.
1 is the only "hard" game and that's because of the time limit, but even then once you know what you're doing you can easily collect every ship part within a few weeks of game days and leave the planet well before you run out of time.

>>723882490
>60 Pikmin total.
not this shit again 3s "hard mode" was the same dogshit

>>723882490
>60 Pikmin cap
Lol, sunk 1000 hours into 3 and only played US once since a 60 cap just kills the pacing. Not even going to bother it that's the case here.

Can we disable the aim assist?
Are we still locked to o ly 3 pikmin types in the overworld

>>723881735
Lmao
Yeah the greediest game company out there couldn’t justify charging their cuck cultists $10. Because we all know how high tendie standards are.

>>723881267 (OP)
Wouldn’t a hard mode make more sense

>>723895116
There is one coming but it caps you at 60 Pikmin again so I won't touch it. That shit made 3 fucking boring.

>>723882035
it's amazing how this isn't just a farfetched fan art. A game exists where these two characters can actually interact.

this was almost certainly going to be a paid update for Switch 2, but they changed gear on those because of how unpopular the whole idea has been.

Anyway, please let us toggle the auto-lock on now. It's like the only real problem with the game. Sometimes that thing outright fucks you over.

>>723881267 (OP)
>spending a day on a quick update 2 years after release = the update was in active development for 2 years
Only on /v/ do you see posters this smart.

>>723895978
Auto-lock on is such a damn plague on the game, it even fucks with level design since I assume the devs knew how fucked it was to do anything with multiple enemies in a small area.
Which blows my mind that there's a whole challenge mission based on fighting hundreds of small fry clumped together to obtain the White/Purple Onion/

usually I'm a tendie apologist but why the FUCK is it so hard for them to give these games an fps/resolution bump on the new hardware?

>>723896797
They want to drip feed it so they have some piece of news every week
They call it mind share

>>723896885
>mind share
fuck this gay earth

>>723881267 (OP)
ultra spicy mode is fun
but pikmin 4 sucks and there's no way they fixed all the problems with it
put ultra spicy in 1 and 2 please

>>723895978
Auto lock on, AND the constant handholding from the rescue Corps. I wish they'd just stfu, the way 4 coddles the player is genuinely insulting to their intelligence.

The fact that they keep doing it during the final fucking boss is horseshit, are the devs so afraid of retards not getting the concept of Pikmin that they have to pester them in the right direction over the course of the whole game?

>>723898014
>AND the constant handholding from the rescue Corps
This holy fuck who the hell thought it'd be a good idea if whenever you lost a pikmin, you'd get a massive immersion-breaking text box in the middle of the screen yelling at you to rewind time.

Pikmin 4 was bad enough with the dog but based off this video showcasing photo mode, easy mode, and hats, its clear I'm no longer the target audience for Pikmin

>>723898342
>"Those poor Pikmin. If only we could turn back time, somehow."
IT WAS ONLY ONE RED, SHUT UP

>>723894306
1 is leagues easier than 2.

>>723895978
What a retarded way of thinking about this. Nintendo isn’t cancelling switch 2 upgrades to their games, fucking idiot. If anything they’re doing this because they know they can’t get away with charging that much for Pikmin. The same reason why the Pikmin 1+2 ports were $40 total and the Mario galaxy ones were $70. This will likely still get a switch 2 visual upgrade over time, as there are features shown in this trailer that were not talked about during it.

>>723898342
As someone who has multiple times No Death’d Pikmin 2, I never once thought I needed the game to remind me of what I’m seeing on the screen with my own fucking eyes.

>>723881804
>they didn't want to cuck Switch 1 owners out of it for once.
why start now? lmao

>>723882490
>>723881267 (OP)
>still no enemy respawns

>>723882171
It's just over two years after release.
Anyone who wanted to play pikmin 4 more than once has already done so. Who and why would they go back now?

>>723882490
Pikmin 4 already had built-in limits on the number of pikmin on the field with the flarlic mechanic.
Why add another?

>>723881267 (OP)
Saying "free update" is pretty facetious from multi billion dollar company.

>>723886486
https://youtu.be/y4X7opDapyE

no 60fps?

>>723900479
Because changing two variables (max Pikmin and carry weight for the gold bar) and hiding some of the flarlics is easier than actual critical rebalancing

ARE THEY GONNA LET ME TURN OFF THE PIKMIN THROWING SOFT-CAP?
THAT SHIT IS PURE FUCKING AIDS
LET ME THROW MORE THAN THE BARE MINIMUM TO CARRY AN ITEM FFS

i only want auto lock on off for that one master dandori mission

>some games get free res/fps updates
>some games get paid res/fps updates
>and some games get just regular updates that feel like they should come with res/fps updates but don't

I am so fucking done bros

>>723901835
DO YOU MEAN FLOOR 7 OF TRIAL OF THE SAGE LEAF?
WHERE THE FLEAS ARE JUNPING EVERYWHERE AND YOU HAVE LIKE 5 SECONDS TO KILL THEM ALL?
FUCK THAT MKSSION IT LIVES IN MY ANUS AAÀAAAAAAAAA

>>723882016
How would the Switch 2 not support UE? Or do you think it’s a really old version??

I agree that this was probably meant to be a switch 2 edition (for 10 bucks) but that Nintendo has given up on the idea after poor sales. Most Nintendo fans just don't really care about graphics and aren't gonna buy graphics upgrades. It was very conspicuous that they only announced one switch 2 upgrade in the past direct.

I can't explain it bros
I miss reggie

>>723902090
yea, i don't care otherwise

>>723882490
Not fucking again, not having 100 pikmin out sucks, this and hearts never dropping in zelda difficulty modes sucks

Louie

>>723901835
>>723902090
It's not that hard, anons.
Just start off with a charge from Oatchi, dismount and let him do his thing whilst you and your Pikmin donkey punch the daylights out of the cunts. It is a bit of trial and error but I don't think the autolock is quite so bad for this mission in particular.

I find the autolock is at its worst whenever you want to take out an enemy that's even remotely close to a Pellet Posy. Straight up retarded game design.

>>723904816
As a kid I only played through halfway of Pikmin 2 so I never knew that Louie was (somewhat) bad

>>723894623
>Yeah the greediest game company
Take your meds 3rd world tranny

>>723881341
It's a little wind-up toy. You can see the winding stick at the side.